Treygreen13:How my dog will react to the burglar is not the issue. It's how the burglar reacts to the dog.

Ding! Ding! Ding!I have a black pit/lab mix who weighs about 65 lbs. He couldn't be more of a snuggly bunny if he tried but you better believe his bark and stature have helped me get rid of unwanted visitors.

kobrakai:Treygreen13: How my dog will react to the burglar is not the issue. It's how the burglar reacts to the dog.

Ding! Ding! Ding!I have a black pit/lab mix who weighs about 65 lbs. He couldn't be more of a snuggly bunny if he tried but you better believe his bark and stature have helped me get rid of unwanted visitors.

yeah, I have a 85 pound boxer, who has an intimidating sound....but once you actually get in and say hello he's just an attention hound

Well, my Cocker Spaniel would wiggle at a burgler. No help there.The Springer on the other hand, she might cause a burglar some problems. Not because she'd be trying to protect the house, but because she'd be jumping up on them and, assuming they're male, hitting them square in the nuts like she regularly does to me.

My dog couldn't hurt a fly. I took her jogging with me once in an area where mountain lions are sometimes seen. Well, about halfway through the trail we hear a growl in the distance. My dog takes that as her sign to run in the opposite direction as fast as she can. I had to let go of the leash because the trail was largely downhill and I would have face planted down a mountain. I found her hiding underneath my car.

/heart of a lion that one.//my sister's yorkie is the alfa///she might try to get attention from a burglar, but she'd probably try to hide underneath the coffee table. All 80 lbs of her.

tweek46420:kobrakai: Treygreen13: How my dog will react to the burglar is not the issue. It's how the burglar reacts to the dog.

Ding! Ding! Ding!I have a black pit/lab mix who weighs about 65 lbs. He couldn't be more of a snuggly bunny if he tried but you better believe his bark and stature have helped me get rid of unwanted visitors.

yeah, I have a 85 pound boxer, who has an intimidating sound....but once you actually get in and say hello he's just an attention hound

Husky Doberman, 85 lbs. 2 seconds of chin rubs and he will show you where we keep the valuables.

My dog goes ape-shiat if a stranger comes to the door, real evil sounding bark/growl from a dog who's hardly ever vocal in any situation. But if someone were to actually break in I think he'd stand there confused for a couple minutes before he asked for some head scratches.

What gets me is the people who let their dogs bark their heads off at the window whenever another dog walks by - like that dog was going to come in and jack their plasma screen TV. Your dog is barking because you spoil it and it doesn't want the other dog to move in on its territory. The owners will tell themselves Mr Yippy is protective and would scare away a burglar, but they don't notice that Mr Yippy doesn't make a peep when it's only a person walking by.

Usually the mere sight of a large dog is enough to make a would-be burglar find a different target. None of my dogs are big and scary but two of them would go batshiat and bark like crazy. Another thing that people who are trying not to draw attention to themselves would rather avoid. The other two may not even lift their heads off their pillow.

We always figured that Lily, our 85-pound Akita cross, would scare off anyone who managed to get over the barbed wire at the top of our fence and make it onto our property. We found out that we figured wrong when one day, the propane inspector dude was unable to reach our tenant by phone and climbed over the fence. My husband happened to glance out the front window and saw Lily playing with the guy.

I am pretty sure that if she'd seen someone being aggressive toward either of us that person would have regretted it, however.

It all depends, I had a malamute who was a giant baby, right up until a burglar tried to break into my house via the window right next to the crib. The dog was stabbed by the burglar's knife and needed stitches, the burglar was found by the police a block or so away, passed out behind a small shed from lack of blood (the cops just followed the blood trail).

I don't care if my dog won't protect the flat screen when I'm not home, after all I have home owners insurance and I'd rather not have some dog prone to overreacting when people come onto his territory. What I do what is a dog that will fark shiat up when I'm not home, but my wife and six month old son are.

Basically my malamute was unhappy about the whole "strange man comes through window next to baby" thing and the moment my wife screamed he went from unhappy to "you know what solves all kinds of problems? Biting this dude repeatedly." When no one is around, he's welcome to help the guy load the TV for all I and my 750 dollar deductible care.

/the day the dog came back from the animal hospital he limped over to the easy chair by the window the burglar came through, sat down behind it and locked his eyes on the window, ready for round two

petec:.but many will attack if a member of their pack is being assaulted..

This. My Australian Shepherd would let anyone into the house if we weren't there, but gave the 14 year old that pushed my 5 year old an arm full of holes and is loathe to let someone stand between either of the kids and him.

I have a feeling there are other situations where the dogs would have performed much better. From personal experience I can say my dog is happy enough to bark it's damn head off at 2am if something unexpected makes a noise.

kisseswookies:My dog takes that as her sign to run in the opposite direction as fast as she can.

My shar-pei consistently runs away from threats as fast as possible in the completely opposite direction. If I want to see what may be in my yard all I have to do is walk directly opposite his path when he bolts.

So far the list of things he consistently run from:GeeseDucksRabbitsDeer - Scary to run into these guys at 5:00 AM...Coyotes - I usually run with him on this one...Skunks - he got sprayed once. Safe to say he did not like it.People

Our dog barks at everything and everyone that gets close. He's a beagle/terrier mix, so he's not going to actually harm anyone even if he wasn't super-friendly, but if anyone comes snooping around at night at least I'll know.

ha-ha-guy:It all depends, I had a malamute who was a giant baby, right up until a burglar tried to break into my house via the window right next to the crib. The dog was stabbed by the burglar's knife and needed stitches, the burglar was found by the police a block or so away, passed out behind a small shed from lack of blood (the cops just followed the blood trail).

I don't care if my dog won't protect the flat screen when I'm not home, after all I have home owners insurance and I'd rather not have some dog prone to overreacting when people come onto his territory. What I do what is a dog that will fark shiat up when I'm not home, but my wife and six month old son are.

Basically my malamute was unhappy about the whole "strange man comes through window next to baby" thing and the moment my wife screamed he went from unhappy to "you know what solves all kinds of problems? Biting this dude repeatedly." When no one is around, he's welcome to help the guy load the TV for all I and my 750 dollar deductible care.

/the day the dog came back from the animal hospital he limped over to the easy chair by the window the burglar came through, sat down behind it and locked his eyes on the window, ready for round two

My dog might drown a burglar with kisses. Ass attack cat though you better watch out for. The hot water heater inspector man did not pay enough attention to her she jumped up and hung off his butt and gave me the what? I didn't do anything look. I was just reminding him he was here to pet me and wasn't doing it.

Treygreen13:How my dog will react to the burglar is not the issue. It's how the burglar reacts to the dog.

Exactly. I *think* my dog would not allow someone to break in to the house, but what I know is that the delivery people won't even get near the door because it sounds like there's a giant farking wolf about ready to come through it.

The dog that would have bitten a stranger who walks into the house when its owner was away is probably the same dog that might bite a stranger while their owner is in the house, and is the same dog that might bite a stranger who wanders into its yard.

What I'm saying is, in a residential neighborhood, having a dog that barks but is reluctant to bite people is far preferable to having a dog that would maul the shiat out of an intruder.

You're a burglar and slightly open the door to my apartment. You see an 80lb german shepherd sitting and staring at you, about two feet away. There is a slight growling sound coming from her. You can either continue into the apartment and hope she's friendly, or you can close the door as fast as possible and retreat from the building hoping she doesn't follow.

If you choose to continue into the apartment, turn to page 7. If you choose to try and quickly close the apartment door and leave, turn to page 15.

/She'd just jump up and lick you

She actually gets whiny when she sees kids outside playing cause they're her size and she wants to go run and play and dance with them.